By KIMBERLIE NGABIT-QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera Women’s Education Action Research Center (CWEARC) and Indigenous Peoples Legal Center (Dinteg) raised alarm over the counter insurgency campaign of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that involves elementary and high school students. “It is indeed alarming that Grade VI school children and high…
Day: August 3, 2012
Groups seek disqualification of partylist group linked to RPA-ABB
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Farmers and human rights activists urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to disqualify a partylist group allegedly with links to the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB). In a petition for disqualification, human rights group Karapatan and the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) called for the removal and/or…
No end in sight to the crisis
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com MANILA — News about the world economy have been bleak once again for the nth time in the past few years since the housing bubble imploded in 2007–2008, which sent financial investment houses and banks on the brink of collapse and further worsened the situation of the stagnant industrial manufacturing sector.…
Why is Mali Spiraling Out of Control? The Afghanistan of Africa
By RAMZY BAROUD Counterpunch.org Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region. Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The tragic reality is that Mali – a large but sparsely populated country, with around 15.5 million inhabitants – was…
The Problem With Intervening in Syria
By PHYLLIS BENNIS Counterpunch.org The brave, non-violent Syrian challenge to a brutal dictatorship emerged as part of the Arab risings across the region. But that short Syrian spring of 2011 has long since morphed into an escalation of militarization and death. The International Committee of the Red Cross acknowledged what many already recognized: Syria is…
Misery Rising: American Freefall
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch.org Washington has been at war since October, 2001. This war took a back seat when Bush concocted another excuse to order the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a war that went on without significant success for 8 years and has left Iraq in chaos with dozens more killed and wounded…
Father of political detainee Ericson Acosta appeals for son’s health, freedom
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“I cannot but be distressed by the continuing prejudice of our justice system against my son and other political prisoners like him.”
Teachers oppose Aquino’s ban on bonuses
INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“Instead of heeding the just demands of state workers for adequate remuneration and tighter price controls, Aquino targets public servants, whose basic take-home pay cannot them home.”– ACT